Magazine Cover

Another project we worked on in class was magazine covers. I loved this project! It combined photography on typography. During this project, I got really good at using Adobe programs I  had never used before. 

Step 1: Find a picture! I took this picture a couple of years ago and used a low quality program to edit it.

Step 2: I edited the picture in Photoshop to make it brighter. I choose to make it brighter because I thought the earlier one was a little dark for a magazine covers. How many magazine covers are darkly lit?

Step 3: I deleted the background. This is where I faced many problems. If you look at my head, it's on a tree. If you look at my feet, its really dark around there. For both of these areas, its hard to just get my hair or my shoe. Knowing myself, I went to google! I looked up a tutorial. You are going to have different problems than me, but just search your problem plus the word tutorial.

Step 4: For the longest time, I was designing my cover on just a white screen. I liked the idea of doing it that way ( example left below), mine just didn't look natural. If you look at the Elle magazine, there is no shadow and its on white background. I didn't think my picture worked so I added a white wall. White! Wow! I also put a shadow into the picture so it would look not as photoshopped. It still does looked photoshopped in some areas (but I'm not going to tell you where so it still looks like a masterpiece).

Step 5: I developed the masthead.

Step 6: I put it all together. There are definitely things I need to work on. I would love your thoughts.